Hypocrites

Shen Yu closed the door softly, and walked past his father's window, the night was already dark, and the oil lamp in the room reflected the black plums depicted by the lampshade on the white wall.

Shen Jin sat down in front of the lamp with her head bowed, with her back to the window sash, sighed, and muttered to herself: "There are too many things to deal with, and you lose sight of the other, but educating people with poems and books is detrimental to virtue. This is the teacher's fault."

Turning around the corridor, the mother was carrying a snack box to deliver food to Shen Jin who had no intention of eating, and saw her son.

"It's so late, where are you going?"

Shen Yu said: "Shhh, Auntie, I'll come back as soon as I go."

In the dead of night in Furong Lane, the starlight shone in the gutter, and Shen Yu's reflection flashed past.

Mujihe's family lived next door to Furong Lane. It was an ordinary courtyard with two entrances. There was an old tree under the back wall and the eaves grew out of it.Shen Yu didn't know how many times he had crawled when he was a child, and he and Mujihe were familiar with each other's backyards. When they turned into the courtyard, Mujihe's house was on the left.The lights are out.

Just as he was about to pass, a stone was thrown on his head.Shen Yu raised his head and saw a man lying on the roof, his legs crossed out of shape.

Mujihe glanced at him with a grass root in his mouth, and Shen Yu climbed onto the roof of the house while climbing on the tile.

"Sit wherever you want," Muzihe said.

Shen Yu laughed and said, "Just sit on the roof with your butt stuck?"

"What else? I'll make you a pot of hot tea and sweep the bed accordingly? I'm sorry, but I'm just reckless and unrestrained."

The tone is very aggressive.

Shen Yu sat down on the spine, his buttocks were indeed tight.Mujihe was lying on the sloping roof, kicking on the squatting spine beast, and the wings of the flying peng spine beast were trampled dirty by him.

Shen Yudao: "That's why you have no ambition. A person who has no ambition only cares about his own heart. Yan Ran is the complete opposite of you. He pretends too much in his heart and can't let go of anything. The two of you make a difference. Choice, I am not surprised at all."

Mu Jihe lazily said: "Okay, you came to teach me in the middle of the night?"

"I'm afraid you won't think about it," Shen Yu said with blank eyes, "You've made my father so angry that he doubted his own way of education. That's because my father told you to face the wall by yourself, and he didn't intend to tell your parents, otherwise, you Now it’s not watching the stars in the middle of the night, but kneeling in the ancestral hall in the middle of the night.”

Mujihe snorted.

How could Shen Yu not know his temper?The man doesn't care about anything, nothing can cure him.Shen Yu and him lay side by side on the sloping roof, looking at the same starry sky.If you want to look into the distance, you have your own city wall to watch the towers. When people climb to the tall buildings, they are like a flock of chickens.Lie down on the roof of the bungalow, but the galaxy is vast, the sea is wide and the sky is high, and it is often in the hands of people like Mujihe, because he doesn't want anything, so he can do whatever he wants.

If we talk about Mu Jihe's ideal, it is probably to imitate his martial arts master and become a wandering knight-errant.

"Really intend to face the wall honestly?"

Mu Jihe said: "Otherwise? No one wants me anymore."

Shen Yule said, "Very good, the prodigal son will never change his money when he returns."

Hearing his ridicule, Mu Jihe spat out the straw, and said helplessly: "My master is back and lives in Guangji Temple. It just so happens that I can't go to the academy these days. I will go to practice with my master."

The ranger is at home everywhere, the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail, and is so mysterious that he doesn't even have a name.Both Shen Yu and Mu Jihe only knew that his surname was Du, maybe Du wasn't his real surname, after leaving Ruyang County, he might be surnamed Zhang or Wang again.The only thing that is certain is that the swordsmanship is really good, and he can walk the world with the sword, and he will never stop for thousands of miles.

Mu Jihe sat up and patted the ashes of his clothes: "I'm going into the temple tomorrow, I have something to say now, get out of here, I'm going to sleep."

Shen Yudao: "You don't want Yan Ran anymore?"

"He didn't want me," Muzihe said. "He was right. My name is water, and his name is fire. Water and fire have never been compatible."

The soles of the shoes brushed against the tiles and landed gracefully, as light as a civet cat. As expected, Mujihe went into the house to sleep, and the doors and windows were closed.Shen Yu shook his head on the roof of his house.

Mujihe no longer appeared in front of everyone.Shen Jin knew that her son would visit secretly, and when asked about the situation, Shen Yu replied: "At home, facing the wall, everyone has lost weight."

Shen Jin nodded and left, Song Jun didn't know about it yet, and asked, "Jihe is facing the wall?"

Shen Yudao: "Be a monk at Guangji Temple."

Song Jun: "?"

The office suddenly became lonely, and neither Mu Jihe nor Yan Ran came.Yan Ran was in the academy, depressed all day long, but fortunately, when the seasons changed, everyone talked less. Either they were worried about Yang Xu who was flying around, or they were impetuous because they were blocked by the sudden rain without an umbrella. So it doesn't look like he's unusual.

Zhou Yu was also very depressed, not even more so than Yan Ran.

In the afternoon when the government office finished doing chores, Song Jun went to Shen Yu's small room and brought him a plate of fried peanuts, and the two of them peeled and ate them.Song Jundao: "I heard that Ms. Yingying's family has found another marriage. Zhou Yu is going to lose his life."

The speed of this family is also fast enough, Yingying looks like Xiaojiabiyu, gentle and pleasant, just at the young age, the suitors step through the threshold, I am afraid that Zhou Yu, who can't come up with a decent dowry gift, will still fail in the end.

Shen Yudao: "But they are in love."

Song Jun ate peanuts and said, "You are young, so you don't understand. Didn't her mother call Zhou Yu a poor scholar? I heard that the person who proposes marriage is either a rich family or an official family. It is obvious that she hopes that her daughter will marry a good family based on her beauty." Go. The family that gave birth to a son hopes that the son will study and become an official and become a leader, and the family that gave birth to a daughter naturally hopes that the daughter will marry high and enter the prince's palace."

Song Jun was also the hope of the family, but Shen Yu didn't care too much about it. The Shen family didn't have a tradition of pursuing fame and wealth, so they were very sad right now.

Zhou Yu also knew, obviously Yingying told him personally.After school that day, some friends who had good friends with him stayed with him in the academy, Yan Ran, Shen Yu, Song Jun, Chen Hui, Lian Fan, all expressed their deep sympathy.

Originally, Zhou Yu still had a runny nose and tears, knowing that love is doomed to end without a problem, crying that as long as Yingying is happy.He really couldn't take it anymore, the woman's marriages continued one after another, which made him daunted.As a result, Chen Hui scolded him for being a coward by pulling his ears. Sometimes he asked other girls to believe in him, and then he gave up lightly when he encountered a stumbling block.

Just as he was talking, there was a sound of wheels running over the stone slabs outside the academy, and Zhou Yu stood up in a huff: "I'm back!" As he spoke, he ran out the door, and the astringent smell of salted fish wafted in the alley.

After the market closed, the fishmonger was happily pushing a cart with empty salted fish baskets and two women, one was his wife and the other was his daughter.

Zhou Yu ran out of the gate of the academy, and Yingying immediately jumped out of the car.

"Stand! Don't go!" The fishmonger's wife scolded, "They are all about to get married, and they are so unsteady!"

"What A Niang says doesn't count, the person I'm going to marry is what I say."

Friends crowded behind the door to watch. "My God," Chen Hui said, "Zhou Yu really did something wrong."

However, the marriage soon developed towards a certain direction. The other party sent coins as a gift.Although hiring a wife is a gift, it is just a form, and buying a concubine is a real price.To some extent, collecting the coins is not much different from selling the daughter to the man's house.

The man's family had just left, but the girl on the back made her own decision and threw the money and silk out of the house. All the neighbors were shocked by her.

The next day when Zhou Yu came to class, he saw a cloth full of coins that no one dared to pick up in the alley, which symbolized that the begging family was very rich, so that he was in a state of despair all day long.

"Elope." Chen Hui said.

"Impossible," Zhou Yu hesitated, "It's unreasonable. Besides, how can Yingying break up with her family..."

A few days later, the fishmonger's house hung up lanterns and red silk.

Zhou Yu burst into tears and found Chen Hui: "Tell me, where can I go to elope?"

They climbed over the wall to the small deserted courtyard next to the academy, and hid themselves to warn Zhou Yu of their elopement.

Yan Ran recalled the last time Shen Yu sent Ding Kou out of the city: "Can that Mr. Dong's family in Zhangshan take two more?"

Shen Yudao: "You want him to take in two elopement lovers? Then my father will know, so he won't break my legs?"

Song Jun worried: "I don't think it's appropriate. Family love is stronger than blood, how can you go against the will of your parents."

Lian Fan: "I don't think it's possible at all! What are you thinking? Elopement is to be soaked in a pigsty! Cui Ji from the Cui Family Academy next door, his eldest brother, you all know how painful it was for your parents when you ran away from home. !"

Shen Yu corrected: "It's not that he ran away from home, but he followed Mr. Cui's instructions and rushed to Wangcheng to seek fame, but he lost contact with his family."

"Isn't that just taking the opportunity to run away from home?" Lian Fan was expressionless.

Shen Yu: "..."

When it comes to doing bad things, Chen Hui is the most experienced.

"You make an appointment with her, where to meet on a certain day, it's best to go out of the city separately, so that her parents won't be suspicious. When the time comes to meet outside the city, it's natural that the sea is wide and the sky is high."

Zhou Yu was silent for a while, opened his mouth, but was speechless again.

Chen Hui said coldly: "You can't have both. Your family, friends, studies, and your Yingying, choose one for yourself."

Many pains in life come from choices, dilemmas when making choices, and regrets after choices.Zhou Yu never told his friends about his choice, but Zhou Yu did not come to the academy on the day when the concubine's red sedan chair was carried all the way into Anjingfang.

The fishmonger lit the firecrackers, and they crackled, attracting countless congratulations.The couple didn't know what happened yet, so they went into the house to pick up their daughter, beaming with joy.The matchmaker was waiting at the door. After a long time, the three of them were in a panic.

Meeting the relatives opposite each other made the students of the academy not interested in listening to the study, and they all joined in the fun.Chen Hui sighed and scratched his head, while Lian Fan watched coldly, because Zhou Yu's decision violated his principles.

The sun was already high at this time, if they went out of the city before dawn, the two of them would have been sleeping together and flying together.

When the fishmonger's wife caught a glimpse of the academy, her expression turned pale, and she seemed to be asking questions.Suddenly at the entrance of the alley, he was rushing with thumping steps, and saw that Zhou Yu was carrying a big suitcase, sweating profusely, with a pale face, and when he saw the parked red sedan chair, he went to lift the curtain of the sedan chair.The bearer refused, so he sat down on the ground and cried loudly: "Yingying! Why did you allow me and marry someone else! I am sorry for you! You leave me alone in the suburbs, and I am willing to wait for a lifetime, as long as You still come! Don't sit in someone else's sedan chair!"

When the fishmonger's wife went up, she spat: "It's you poor scholar again! What are you doing here to cry and mourn! Where's my family Yingying?"

"Yingying... Isn't Yingying going to marry?!"

For a moment, the two stared blankly.

I don't know who yelled.Exclaimed one after another.

A horse ran off the rein and ran into the alley, and a bunch of blood flowers in the shape of horseshoes bloomed on the stone road.

The horse had to walk to the end of the alley. On the right was the academy, on the left was the fishmonger's house, and on his back was a man who was pierced into a hedgehog by arrows.

There was dead silence.

The fishmonger's wife rolled her eyes and fainted.

The bright red man rolled off his horse and fell to the ground without a sound, Zhou Yu screamed.When the horse reached the end, he saw that there was no way to go, so he turned around and left again.